Volume 41, Number 1 & 2 · January 13, 1994
United We Fall
By Gordon A. Craig
The Rush to German Unity
by Konrad H. Jarausch
Oxford University Press, 272 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Beyond the Wall: Germany's Road to Unification
by Elizabeth Pond
Brookings Institution/Twentieth Century Fund, 367 pp., $28.95
German Unification in the European Context
by Peter H. Merkl, with a contribution by Gert-Joachim Glaessner
Pennsylvania State University Press, 448 pp., $18.95 (paper)
At the end of the diary that he kept from November 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall ceased to be an effective barrier to free movement from east to west, until the Day of German Unity on October 3, 1990, Horst Teltschik, chief adviser on foreign and security policy in the West German chancellor's office, described the scene in the Reichstag after the unification ceremony had been completed.
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